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Saving Artlantis ATL in OSX & open in XP, materials erro

Chazz
Enthusiast
When I save Artlantis 2.0 ATL files in AC 11 (OSX Leopard) and then try to open the same file in Artlantis Render 2, none of my materials come across. I can open them fine in OSX but i've never got it to work under XP (which admittedly, I'm a noob in).

Any thoughts? Is this a file name length issue? Is there a workaround? Would loading them under Vista help? Any info appreciated.
Nattering nabob of negativism
2023 MBP M2 Max 32GM. MaxOS-Current
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Anonymous
Not applicable
Then you probably do not have the used materials stored on the other computer.
Try to export as archive when you need to port over a file to another computer. In an archive all the used materials, images, textures and objects are saved together with your ATL file.

ArtLantis menu: File/export as Archive...

Hope this helps

Sjaak
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Just to add a small thing to what Sjaak (the excellent moderator of the Artlantis forums) said...

When you save an atl file, it references all materials/textures by paths on the local machine - perhaps scattered all over your disk and server. When you save an archive, it gathers all of these things together into a single folder structure so that you can move the project to another computer - whether it is another Mac or PC.

File paths on Windows and Mac OS X are entirely different, and so using an archive is the most reasonable approach to moving an atl file from one OS to the other.

Cheers,
Karl
One of the forum moderators
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